Élisabeth Vonarburg (born 5 August 1947) is a

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writer. She was born in

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(France) and has lived in

Chicoutimi Chicoutimi ( , ) is the most populous borough (arrondissement) of the city of Saguenay in Quebec, Canada. It is situated at the confluence of the Saguenay and Chicoutimi rivers. During the 20th century, it became the main administrative and ...

(now Saguenay),

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, Canada since 1973. From 1979 to 1990 she was the literary director of the French-Canadian

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''. Her first

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, ''Le Silence de la Cité'' (''The Silence in the City''), appeared in 1981. She has received several awards, including "Le Grand Prix de la SF française" in 1982 and a Philip K. Dick Award special citation in 1992 for '' In the Mothers' Land'' the English version of ''Chroniques du pays des mères''. She is the author of ''Cycle de Tyranaël''.

Bibliography

Series

Maerlande

Tyranaël

Reine de Mémoire

Les Pierres et les Roses

Other novels and story collections

Anthology

*''Tesseracts Q'' with Jane Brierley (1996)

External links

"Dreams of the Real: ''Dreams of the Sea'' by Elisabeth Vonarburg"
by John Garrison, ''Strange Horizons'', 28 June 2004 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vonarburg, Elisabeth 1947 births Living people Writers from Paris Canadian science fiction writers Canadian speculative fiction critics Canadian speculative fiction editors French science fiction writers Writers from Saguenay, Quebec Science fiction critics French emigrants to Quebec Canadian women novelists Canadian women science fiction and fantasy writers French women novelists Canadian novelists in French Canadian women non-fiction writers Université Laval alumni 20th-century Canadian translators 20th-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian translators 21st-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian women writers Novelists from Quebec